🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-05-25
I'm simplifying the newsletter format based on reader feedback while covering key market insights and career updates.
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Welcome to the latest Hot Fudge Daily. Each day of the week you get thematic value.
- 🌶️ Spicy Edition Sunday FREE (Hot Fudge Sunday weekly newsletter captures the best of Hot Fudge Daily and the most clicked links for the week.)
- 📈 Markets Monday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: What is moving markets and why does it matter for the week ahead?)
- 🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: Get fast unfiltered thoughts on news of the day with just a dash of snark.)
- 🤪 Wacky Wednesday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: Catch up on the wild and wooly memes from a variety of deep web #random channels.)
- 🔙 Throwback Thursday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: Examine recent news in a thought provoking Shot and Chaser format.)
- ✅ Final Thoughts Friday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: A clear eyed look back on the week that was and could have been.)
- 🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday $ (Hot Fudge Daily: Steady and sober unpacking of the slow news day where muted press releases and disclosure stories try to get buried before the weekend takes all the attention.)
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📈 Markets Monday for 2025-05-19
As a reminder, this is an end of day snapshot…
Quick Recap
For Market Monday, I continue to look at the same key indicator that I take from a simple Yahoo Finance webpage each week. It’s how I look at things through the lens of the closing bell on Monday.
This week:
🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-05-20
Two hot takes on bills and banks.
⚖️ + 🤖 I guess if you wanted to say anything goes with AI you could just make a law that says anything goes with AI, right?
Techmeme: The US House Budget Committee advances a budget bill that would ban US states from enforcing any law regulating AI for 10 years; the bill now goes to the House (Clare Duffy/CNN)
By Clare Duffy / CNN. View the full context on Techmeme.
🤖 + 🏦 If you do, then I guess you could literally take that to the bank, right?
Techmeme: Catena Labs, co-founded by Circle co-founder Sean Neville to build an “AI-native bank”, emerges from stealth with an $18M seed led by a16z (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
By Ben Weiss / Fortune. View the full context on Techmeme.
🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-05-21
Each Wednesday I go through dozens of Slack communities.
I then select the most interesting shared link.
This will always be a safe for work link. 🙈
The Wienie 500 Is the Most American Motorsport Event Ever Devised
You can go to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Friday to watch six Oscar Meyer Weinermobiles race in the Wienie 500.
🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-05-22
📡 🛰️ One story caught my eye this week — the gap in LEO satellite broadband services deployment.
Techmeme: How SpaceX's Starlink moved quickly to solidify its lead in the satellite internet business, as its competitors face production and launch capacity bottlenecks (Financial Times)
From Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.
Back in the ancient times of 2018… the satellite broadband services market was only being served by a few seemingly legacy providers.
Techmeme: SpaceX launches first test satellites for its proposed Starlink broadband project, which aims to link up many small satellites to provide reliable internet (Kaleigh Rogers/Motherboard)
By Kaleigh Rogers / Motherboard. View the full context on Techmeme.
✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-05-23
🤖 + 🔮 The story that caught my eye this week was Waymo reaching 10M paid rides. Granted, even 10M total rides is a mere drop in the bucket compared to human operated Lyft and Uber rides every day.
Waymo will disrupt the gig economy slowly as it ramps. Just as the human switchboard operator role had a peak, that peak gave way increasingly automated digital telecommunications solutions.
Techmeme: Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana says Waymo has reached 10M paid trips, doubling in the past five months, and that the company is not yet profitable (CNBC)
From CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme.
🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-05-24
Ah, the Friday news dump. Let’s see the memes!
By Friday, everything seems to be reaching the peak of getting news turned in before a deadline or dread-line. It sometimes seems like we reach a fever pitch in news coverage throughout the week.
Insert Let's See Who This Really Is Meme
Techmeme: Zoom CEO Eric Yuan used an AI avatar for his initial comments on Zoom's Q1 earnings call on May 21; Klarna's CEO used an AI avatar to deliver earnings on May 19 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
By Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
#OpenToWork Weekly
I participated in a #NeverSearchAlone #JSC after rebooting Cuthrell Consulting and joining NexusTek.
I added those #OpenToWork from my LinkedIn network to this newsletter. Over time, we've grown an Alumni 🎉 section for those that have transitioned from to their next career adventure.
Alumni 🎉
- Congrats Jarrod Weise 🎉
- Congrats Karl Edwards 🎉
- Congrats Paul Lysko 🎉
- Congrats Bob Lima, PMP 🎉
- Congrats Rich Green 🎉
- Congrats Sheri Gearhart 🎉
- Congrats Shianna Maxwell 🎉
- Congrats Richard Arnesen! 🎉
Those in my network that are #OpenToWork:
- Elizabeth Quintanilla - Fractional CMO, Digital Marketing Consultant & Coach, Marketing Gunslinger
- Kelly Britt - Experienced Talent Acquisition Specialist
- Dan Kelleher - Program & Technical Project Manager | CSM
- Barbara Hadley, EdM, SPHR - Strategic HR Leader | Employee Engagement Expert
- Andrew Webber - Proven Leader | Consumer Product Innovation & Scaling
- Lida Tohidi - Award-Winning Product & Marketing Leader | Startup Advisor
- Nathan Clyker - Strategic Sales & Business Development | IT Solutions Expert
- Gina (Gina Minks) Rosenthal - Global Product Marketing Manager | Technical Content Strategist
- Janel Van Beek - Business Strategist & Master Coach | Leadership & Change Expert
- Greg Phillips - Cloud Platform & Strategic Marketing Leader
- Tamera Rousseau King - Technical Program Manager | Agile Product Owner | People Leader
- Ricardo Perez - Virtualization Architect | PowerFlex & VxRail Specialist
- Mike Berteletti, CISSP - Experienced IT Professional | Infrastructure & Security
- Chris Mojica - Technical Sales & Solutions Architect
- Matthew Leib - Data Center, Cloud & Storage Architect | Technical Writer & Analyst
- Michael Joffe - Global Technology Leader | P&L Management | SaaS & OEM
- Colleen Coll - Event Technology & Digital Media Specialist | Live Reporting
- Thomas Chatham - Engineering Leader | SaaS & Converged Infrastructure
- Sam Aiello, Ph.D. - Cybersecurity & Technology Strategist | Pre-Sales Leadership
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